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- July 5 2002
- Version 2.00 k
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- Virtual Mechanics Inc.
-
- Thank you for using IMS Web Dwarf Version 2 Virtual Mechanics free
- WYSIWYG HTML and SVG Web Editor.
-
-
- Welcome
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- NO SPY-WEAR, NO AD-WEAR, NO JUNK-WEAR
-
- Virtual Mechanics software applications do not display paid
- advertising, are non-intrusive and non-reporting. They do not gather,
- report, or in any other way intrude into a users computer or Internet
- use other than as intended by the user for the design and publishing of
- Web Pages and graphic content. See our Privacy Policy at
- www.VirtualMechanics.com/company/privacy.html for more information.
-
- PLEASE HELP US HELP YOU
-
- Virtual Mechanics primary source of revenue is through the sale of its
- software products. If you like this product please consider upgrading
- to our professional products. Not only will you get Multi-Page
- projects, anti-aliased graphics and titles, special effects, Tables,
- Meta-Tags, Splines and much more, you will also help to keep this
- product free for new users to try and of course you will get our full
- appreciation.
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- Legal Notices
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- NOTICE OF PROPRIETARY PROPERTY
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- 'IMS Web Dwarf', 'IMS Studio' and 'Interactive Multimedia System' are
- all trademarks of Virtual Mechanics Inc. All manuals, documentation and
- other support materials regardless of medium are the proprietary
- property of Virtual Mechanics or its suppliers. Any proprietary
- property of other companies whose products have been licensed to
- Virtual Mechanics and are used in these programs, such as fonts, sound
- effects, music, animation, clip art, spelling, dictionaries or
- otherwise, remain the property of those companies. You agree not to
- remove or deface any such notifications of proprietary restrictions
- from any Virtual Mechanics products contained herein.
-
- It is strictly forbidden to reverse engineer, attempt to reverse
- engineer, decompile, or otherwise make use of any part of the core code
- that constitutes IMS Studio or the code contained in any of its
- applications including but not limited to 'IMS Web Dwarf'. Any such
- activity will result in criminal prosecution and the pursuit of
- damages.
-
- COPYRIGHT.
-
- IMS Web Dwarf is protected by copyright laws and international
- copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and
- treaties. All title and copyrights in and to the Software Product
- including but not limited to any images, animations, tutorials, help
- files and other text, JavaScript files and "applets" that are
- incorporated into this Software Product, are owned by Virtual Mechanics
- Inc. or its suppliers.
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- LICENSE
-
- IMS Web Dwarf is a licensed Freeware product and may be freely
- distributed and used provided full credit is given to Virtual Mechanics
- and no fee is charged for its use. All rights to IMS Web Dwarf remains
- the property of Virtual Mechanics.
-
- Virtual Mechanics retains all rights to change or modify the terms of
- use and distribution for its products at any time.
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- WARRANTY
-
- This free software is provided "As Is" without warranty of any kind,
- either express or implied including but not limited to, implied
- warranties of merchantability of fitness for a particular purpose, non-
- infringement and/or accuracy of information or that the software is in
- any way error free since like all other major software products it
- probably is not.
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- Installation and use.
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- PLEASE BACKUP YOUR EXISTING PROJECTS.
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- If you are upgrading from Version 1 we strongly recommend that you
- backup your Version 1 projects to a safe place (floppy, zip etc.) so
- that they cannot be accidentally overwritten by a Version 2 file of the
- same name.
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- Once you have backed up your existing projects you can install Version
- 2 into the same directory as your Version 1 program. You should then be
- able to use your Version 1 projects in your new Version 2 program with
- a minimum of changes.
-
- Please note that although IMS Web Dwarf Version 2 can read your Version
- 1 IMS Projects, Version 1 cannot read projects that have been created
- by Version 2. Please ensure that you maintain backups of your V1
- projects in case you decide to revert to Version 1 for any reason.
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- TUTORIALS and HELP
-
- Although this program is distributed free, it includes many advanced
- features, functions and capabilities that you will not find even in
- expensive commercial products. To optimize its use we have included
- extensive documentation and hands-on tutorials. Both the Tutorials and
- Help documentation can be accessed from the Help menu. You will also
- find links to additional support aids including FAQ's and our on-line
- newsgroup where you can post any problems or questions related to the
- use this product.
-
- VERSION 2 FEATURES
-
- Version 2 has undergone significant changes, additions and updates from
- Version 1. Some of these new features include:
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- 1. Fully integrated support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) the new
- standard from the W3C for vector graphics on the Internet. Simply
- select HTML or SVG in the publisher to export your project in your
- preferred format.
- 2. Enhanced vector editing including support for rounded rectangles,
- pie's and arcs. Switch to Object Edit mode to interactively select,
- move, rotate, stretch and skew most Objects including loaded bitmap
- images.
- 3. Enhanced page layout including a Snap-to grid, Snap-to tabs, rulers
- and pixel precision alignment.
- 4. Enhanced rendering with support for linear shading, cylindrical
- shading, radial shading and transparency.
- 5. Rendering of Titles into the background to produce shaded bitmaps.
- 6. Enhanced Text editor with numerous updates including an Automatic
- Link editor to quickly convert and edit your links.
- 7. A new Link Editor with settings for a title, underline, color,
- target window and other options. Links will automatically be converted
- to either an HTML or XML format when you publish HTML or SVG. Use the
- wild card .* extension to let the program automatically assign links
- with either a .html or .svg file type.
- 8. A new Quick Editor with rapid numerical display and updating of an
- Object's transformations, geometry and shading.
- 9. Enhanced FTP Publisher including added support for NN6 and IE6 HTML
- browsers and the Adobe SVG viewer.
- 10. New tutorials. Select the Help menu, How-To tutorials to learn how
- to use this software.
-
- To view the full list of Web Dwarf features visit
- http://www.VirtualMechanics.com/dwarf or read the included tutorials
- and documentation.
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- REPORT PROBLEMS
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- Please report any problems you find in the program, tutorials or
- documentation to bugs@VirtualMechanics.com
-
- ENJOY
- -Web Dwarf development team.
- -Virtual Mechanics Inc.
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